Do you feel like watching something cerebral? This overview contains all Netflix movies and series in the cerebral genre and is updated with new releases daily. Currently, the best rated title in this category, with a rating of 20, is 100 Days of Solitude.
On the last day of his life, a legendary director struggles to complete a new project and contemplates his legacy in this layered film by Orson Welles.
November 7, 2018 | Movie | 2018 | 122 minutes
Actors, crew members and others who were there discuss the tumultuous creation of Orson Welles's final, unfinished film, “The Other Side of the Wind.”
November 7, 2018 | Documentaries | 2018 | 98 minutes
Over six days in 1971, brilliant writer Sergei Dovlatov encounters maddening barriers to publishing his work under the repressive Soviet regime.
November 1, 2018 | Movie | 2018 | 126 minutes
In 1992, Sandi Tan and her friends shot a quirky film on the streets of Singapore. Then the footage disappeared, sending her on a hunt for answers.
November 1, 2018 | Documentaries | 2018 | 97 minutes
A professor mysteriously vanishes, leaving behind a host of suspects, a shadowy history and a clue: the anonymous birthday gift of a Bengali classic.
October 24, 2018 | Movie | 2017 | 150 minutes
After devastating terror attacks in Norway, a young survivor, grieving families and the country rally for justice and healing. Based on a true story.
October 11, 2018 | Movie | 2018 | 144 minutes
In 1960, Israeli spies undertake a daring mission to capture notorious Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann and bring him to justice. Based on real events.
October 11, 2018 | Movie | 2018 | 123 minutes
On the run and suffering from memory loss, a Harvard symbologist must decipher clues to stop a plague designed to decimate the planet's population.
October 11, 2018 | Movie | 2016 | 121 minutes
Complications around the cremation of their deceased friend inspire three septuagenarian friends to build their own mortuary.
October 1, 2018 | Movie | 2016 | 73 minutes
An unlucky, debt-ridden teen resorts to his math skills when he's forced into a deadly tournament of rock-paper-scissors run by a diabolical host.
September 29, 2018 | Movie | 2018 | 130 minutes
Two struggling strangers connect during a mind-bending pharmaceutical trial involving a doctor with mother issues and an emotionally complex computer.
September 23, 2018 | Show | 2018
As kids, they escaped a UFO death cult. Now, two adult brothers seek answers after an old videotape surfaces and brings them back to where they began.
September 19, 2018 | Movie | 2017 | 111 minutes
When a theater group stages a production of a Rabindranath Tagore play, they begin to notice parallels between the story and their own lives.
September 15, 2018 | Movie | 2017 | 111 minutes
Featuring breathtaking imagery and thought-provoking narration, this film takes viewers to the summits of some of the world’s most amazing mountains.
September 3, 2018 | Documentaries | 2017 | 73 minutes
In 1947 Los Angeles, the disappearance of four men, including his own detective, leads a police captain to a cavern where an eerie discovery awaits.
August 27, 2018 | Movie | 2016 | 11 minutes
A college student and his friends embark on a journey of self-discovery when they trek into the Himalayas searching for a source of mythical hashish.
August 27, 2018 | Movie | 2014 | 116 minutes
Just months after a tragic loss, detective Sofia Karppi investigates the murder of a woman with ties to a Helsinki construction company.
August 24, 2018 | Show | 2018
Runaway teen lovers June and Harry find themselves swept up in a dangerous and confusing new world when June begins to display mysterious abilities.
August 24, 2018 | Show | 2018
Suburban couple Paul and Audrey decide to have themselves shrunk to tiny size and relocated to a miniature city where they can live in upscale luxury.
August 24, 2018 | Movie | 2017 | 135 minutes
A maverick psychologist must uncover the secrets of a gifted but dangerous young girl who has been placed on lockdown for her supernatural abilities.
August 22, 2018 | Movie | 2018 | 80 minutes